Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-07-25
AS TO THE MINISTRY.
DR.. TALNAGE BREACHES a SERMON ON
SERMONS
de Deals With the Ministry Under the Heads
Preaching, Teaching and EhOratiOn"--
Before the World is Converted Re-
igiouS Discourse Will Have 70 Be.
SpeciQ 7tleornm % ne ksnis,er.


ligiOlS Discourse Will Have 10 &c.
Special 7tIe9ram 10 The Register.
THE HAMPToNs, July 24.-The Rev.
T. DE Witt Talmage's subject this morn
ing was: Preaching, Teaching and Ex-
narration, and his text: Romans Xii. Z
and i: "Or ministry, let us wait ON our
ministermg; or he that teacheth, on teach
ing; OIL he that exhorteth, on exhortation. {"
Before the world is converted the
Z STYLE OF RELIGIOUS DISCOURSE
will have To be converted. You might as
well go into the modern Sedan OF Gettys-
burg with bows and arrows instead ofrifes
and bOmbshells and parks of artillery, as
to expect to conquer this world for God by
the old styles OF exhortatiOn and sermon
ology. Jonathan Edwards preached the
sermons most adapted to the age in which
he lived, but if those sermons were
preached now they would divide an audi
enCe into two classes, those sound asleep
and those wanting to 20 home.
But there is a religious discourse of the
iuture-who will preach it have no idea,
i'll what part of the earth it will be born
have no idea, i'll which denominations OF
Christians it will be delivered | cannot
guess. That discourse or exhortation may
be born i'll the country meeting house on
the banks of the ST. Lawrence, or the Ore
gOn, or the Ohio or the TOmbigbee. or the
Alabama. The person who shall deliver il
may this moment he i'll cradle under the
| shadows OF the Sierra Nevada, or in q
New England farm bouse, or amid the
rice fields OF Southern Savannas Or this
moment there may he some young man in
some of our theological seminaries, in the
junior or middle, or senior class, shaping
that weapon OF power. Or there may
he coming some new baptism of
the Holy Chest on the churches, 80 that
some OF us who now stand in the watch
towers of Zion, waking to a realization Of
our present inetticiency, may preach it our
selves That coming discourse may not be
| fifteen years of. Aud let us pray God
that its arrival may be fastened, while
announce to you what think will he the
chief characteristics of that discourse or
| eXhOrtatiOn when il does arrive, and
want To make the REMARKS Of the morning
appropriate and suggestive to all classes of
Christian workers.
First Of all ! remark, that that future
religious discourse will be
FULL OF LIVING CHRIST
in contradistlnction to didactic technicali-
ties. A discourse may be full of Christ
though hardly mentioning His name, and
a sermon may be empty of Christ while
every sentence is repetitious of his titles
The world wants living Christ, not
Christ standing at the head of formal
system of theology, but a Christ who
means pardon and sympathy, and condo
lence, and brotherhood, and life, and
heaven. A poor mans Christ. A rich
mans Christ. An overworked mans
Christ. An invalid's Christ A farmers
Christ. \ merchants. Christ An artisans
Christ. An every mans Christ.
a symmetrical and tine-wOrded system
of theology is well enough for theological
classes, but it has no more business i'll a
pulpit than have the technical phrases of
an anatomist or a psychologist or ply
sician in the sick room of patient.
The world wants help, immediate and
world-uplifting and it will come through
discourse in which Christ shall walk
right down into the immortal soul and
take everlasting possession of it, filling it
as full Of light ~ is this MONDAY firma-
ment.
That sermon or eXhortatiOn of the future
will not deal with men in the threadbare
illustrations of Jesus Christ. In that
coming address there will be instances OF
vicarious suffering taken right out of
everyday life, for there is not day some
body is not dying for Others. AS
the physician saving his diph-
theritic patient by sacrificing his
own life; rs the ship captain going
down with his vessel, while he is getting
his passengers into the life boat; aS the
fireman consumed i'll the burning build
ing while he Is taking a child out of
fourth. story window; ~ in summer the
strong swimmer at East Hampton, or
Long Branch, or Cape May, or Lake
George, himself perished trying to rescue
the drowning; as the newspaper boy one
summer, supporting his mother for some
years, his invalid mother, when offered by
a gentleman fifty cents 10 get some especial
paper, and he got it, and rushed up in his
anxiety TO deliver it, and was crushed
under the wheels of the train, aud lay on
the grass with only strength enough to say:
''Oh. what will become OF my poor sick
mother now"
vrCARIOUs SUFFERING.
The world is full of it. An engineer said
to me on a locomotive i'll Dakota: I'VE
men seem TO be coming to better apprecia'
ton than We used TO. Did you see that
account the other day of an engineer who